Today, in the 21-hour period after pos­ting his first tweet, His Holi­ness the Dalai Lama had attrac­ted about 40,000 follo­wers. (I’ll update Tues­day with data from Twit­ter­Coun­ter.) Is there another reli­gious figure that com­pa­res? (The Pope endor­sed digi­tal outreach in January, but I have not heard of anyone from the church set­ting up Twitter.)